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Show American Servicemen h Korea Have Chance At Certain let Benefits American servicemen called into action in Southern Korea might be eligible for several benefits administered by the Veterans Administration, the VA has announced. Those who suffer injury or disease may be entitled to disability dis-ability compensation pay at lull wartime rates, despite the fact that this nation is not at war. Also, if they carry National Service life insurance, premium payments may be waived in - case of injury or disease, "traceable "trace-able to the extra hazard of service" ser-vice" and any action in South Korea could fall under that category. cat-egory. Dependents of those who might lose their lives in action may be entitled to death compensation com-pensation benefits at wartime Full wartime rates for disability dis-ability and death compensation, arising under conditions similar to the Korean situation, are authorized by Public Law 359, 77th Congress, passed 12 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor Har-bor in 1941. Under that law, wartime rates are payable for disability or death resulting from injury or, disease received in line of duty "(1) as a direct result of armed conflict, or (2) while engaged in extra hazardous service, including includ-ing such service under conditions condi-tions simulating war, or (3) while the United States is engaged en-gaged in war." The Korean action brings the first and second categories into play. Peacetime rates of - compensation, compensa-tion, VA explained, are 80 per cent of wartime rates. VA pointed out that those taking part in action in Korea would not be entitled to G. I. Bill benefits as a result of that service. They would otherwise have to be eligible because of military service in World War II; further, they must meet all eligibility reauirements set forth in that act. The G. I. Bill, VA added, was designed primarily for the readjustment of World War II veterans. |